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ANTHEROZOID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does antherozoid mean?
• ANTHEROZOID (noun)
The noun ANTHEROZOID has 1 sense:
1. a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm
Familiarity information: ANTHEROZOID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
antherozoid; spermatozoid
Hypernyms ("antherozoid" is a kind of...):
gamete (a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes)
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